Translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of Gauss curvature

Authors Beomjun Choi, Kyeongsu Choi, Soojung Kim

Publication date 27 April 2021

Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

Abstract: We construct and classify translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of the Gauss curvature. This result reveals all translating surfaces which model Type II singularities of closed solutions to the

a l p h a

-Gauss curvature flow in

m a t h b b R^{3}

for any

a l p h a > 0

. To this end, we show that level sets of a translating surface under the

a l p h a

-Gauss curvature flow with

a l p h a i n (0, f r a c 14)

converge to a closed shrinking curve to the

f r a c a l p h a 1 - a l p h a

-curve shortening flow after rescaling, namely the surface is asymptotic to the graph of a homogeneous polynomial. Then, we study the moduli space of translating surfaces asymptotic to the polynomial by using slowly decaying Jacobi fields. Notice that our result is a Liouville theorem for a degenerate Monge-Am`ere equation,

d e t D^{2} u = (1 + | D u |^{2})^{2 - f r a c 1 2 a l p h a}

where

a l p h a i n (0, f r a c 14)

.

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